know one another. present. no past no future. washing hands, cracked m — Daphne du Maurier

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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror shows me to myself, suspended as it were, in time; this is me, this moment will not pass. And then I open the door and go to the dining-room, where he is sitting waiting for me at a table, and I think how in that moment I have aged, and passed on, how I have advanced one step towards an unknown destiny.We smile, we choose our lunch, we speak of this and that, but – I say to myself-I am not she who left him five minutes ago. She has stayed behind. I am another woman, older, more mature…

Daphne du Maurier

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